Informal Educators

Many of the products and services coming from the education and Public Outreach Department (ePOD) are aimed at encouraging and supporting the activity of informal educators such as science centres, museums, planetariums, public observatories, astronomy clubs etc.

To be informed about new opportunities offered by ESO, informal educators are invited to subscribe to our Outreach Newsletter, sent out once per month via email. To subscribe please fill out this form.

Products and services available for informal educators:

Press releases with focus on translated versions you can share on your websites if you have a news section.

The press releases now also include SpaceScoop for kids — a service provided by ESO in partnership with the educational project Universe Awareness (UNAWE) that explains ESO Science and Photo Releases in a language that children aged between seven and eleven years old can easily understand. To access them, look for the Space Scoop icon located at the top of each press release's page.

Free access to mega- and gigapixel images in the image archives on eso.org and spacetelescope.org (use advanced search) to print and display in your facility

Science centres and other institutions that regularly do informal education and outreach projects, events or campaigns with ePOD can apply to become ESO Outreach Partner Organisations. Examples are for instance the GigaGalaxy Zoom project and Hubble’s 15th and 20th anniversaries.